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Character and Theme Analysis of Great Expectations

gain that affection, not about the actual love itself. Its all about Pip. Not about the love, and not about Estella. In fact, in most parts of the story, Estella is only present in Pips heart and thoughts, while the actual interaction between the two is kept at a minimum. All of us often go through the struggles that Pip faces, showing that finding oneself can be a long and tedious search, until eventually there is a moment of pure consciousness and recognition, and sometimes that can change everything.Character Analysis Pip is the main character and first-person narrator of Great Expectations. He is a man who spends his entire youth trying to improve himself, attempting to preen his outer appearance and striving to remodel his manner because he is ashamed of himself; his family; his roots. When fortune hits him, Pip becomes even more unwilling to accept where he came from, but he is eventually forced to realize that money cannot guaranty happiness: the thing he wants most, Estellas love. At the beginning, Pips mild simplicity of mind and personality is shown not only in his sentence structure, but his willingness to accept things as they are, since he cannot change them. The opening statement of the novel demonstrates this and shows Pips plainness before his expectations became: My fathers family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Phillip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. (Page 3.) This is when he was still a young orphan being raised by his sister and brother-in-law in the marshes of Kent, in the western part of England.Then his Uncle Pumblechook brings him to the mansion of Miss Havisham, in which life is lived at twenty minutes to nine and daylight does not exist, and where Pip meets her adopted daughter, the beautiful Estella. At this meeting, Pip is introduced to his unattainable dream girl he is to one day fall hopelessl...

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